Vasiṣṭha Dhanurveda Saṃhitā — Sanskrit Text

by Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha

The Dhanurveda Saṃhitā of Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha — the classical Hindu treatise on the science of archery and arms, framed as Vasiṣṭha's instruction to Viśvāmitra of the teaching Sadāśiva gave to Paraśurāma. It sets out the four pādas of Dhanurveda (initiation, the collection of arms, perfected practices, and their application), the fourfold classification of weapons, and the discipline of the archer. Devanāgarī with IAST transliteration, 271 passages. Sanskrit text from Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org), available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. IAST transliteration generated from the Devanāgarī. No English translation is included.